This Sunday, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition will air a new episode featuring Red Cross CPR preparedness training. Country music celebrity Clint Black will be joining the Extreme Makeover team in building a new home for the Mattingly family, who are known for their willingness to help others in their community.
The Mattingly family share an [...]
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Halloween is coming, and once again, the Red Cross has some safety tips that we encourage everyone to keep in mind when going trick-or-treating!
This year, the seasonal flu and H1N1 have been major concerns across the board, so we also want to suggest some precautions. Think about these actions you can take: [...]
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Welcome to the Weekly Worldwide Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you. It’s a non-comprehensive sampling of the larger and/or more intriguing aspects of our global work…
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Holiday Mail For Heroes is here again! This year, we are teaming up with our friends at Pitney Bowes for the third time to send holiday cards to service members, veterans, and their families. This is a great way to give back this holiday season – by sharing your kind words [...]
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You’ve all heard of the trivia game – Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon – based on the idea that any actor can be linked to Kevin Bacon within six connections. But have you heard of the same small world phenomenon applying to a nonprofit like the Red Cross?
Legend has it that if you ask a [...]
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Welcome to the Weekly Worldwide Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you. It’s a non-comprehensive sampling of the larger and/or more intriguing aspects of our global work…
[The place names link to maps so that you can get a quick idea [...]
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This is an amazing story recorded by Christi Harlan, a Red Cross worker who has had the opportunity to talk to many American Samoa victims and volunteers. Christy had a chance recently to talk to Alofa Ofagalilo on the phone about her personal tragedy and what keeps her motivated to help people in American Samoa.
She [...]
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Today, the Red Cross released results from a new poll focused on the H1N1 virus and taking precautions during flu season. There were some very interesting results! Take a look at these highlights:
There were significant differences in how men and women have reacted to the threat of the H1N1 flu.
83% of women surveyed [...]
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What’s that, you say? Nothing is scarier on Halloween than being unsafe? Don’t worry – prepare yourself by listening to these cute kids sharing rhyming safety tips!
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Most of the stunning photos we’ve been able to share with you from American Samoa are the work of Talia Frenkel. Talia is a professional photographer we sent to American Samoa to chronicle the hard work by our workers on the ground. Thanks to her, we have a unique window into the stories of [...]
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